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Future libraries – Change, options and how to get there = Learning from the Future Libraries Programme Phase 1, August 2011 “The Future Libraries Programme is a partnership between the Local Government Group (LG Group) and Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), and is driven by local authorities themselves. It is about sharing good practice. …
Dr. Kari Kraus, University of Maryland, via NYT: “..if were going to save even a fraction of the trillions of bits of data churned out every year, we cant think of digital preservation in the same way we do paper preservation. We have to stop thinking about how to save data only after its no …
Forum Guide to Ensuring Equal Access to Education Websites – Introduction to Electronic Information Accessibility Standards, July 2011 “This guide is designed for use by information technology administrators, data specialists, and program staff responsible for the content in data reports, as well as education leaders (e.g., administrators who prioritize tasks for technical and data staff), …
Follow up to House Bill – No Money for GPO’s Federal Digital System, Sharply Cuts Other Information Resources – Government Information in Peril, by Bernadine Abbott Hoduski: “The House-passed bill cuts funding for the Superintendent of Documents program from nearly $40 million to less than $34 million, making it very difficult for GPO to support …
Bennett,Rick, Edward T. O’Neill, Kerre Kammerer, and JD Shipengrover. 2011. mapFAST: A FAST Geographic Authorities Mashup with Google Maps. Code4Lib Journal, 14, 2011-07-25 “mapFAST is a mashup that uses Google Maps to present a different way to look at subject access to bibliographic records. When looking for information about a particular place, it is often …
Chronicle of Higher Education: A High-Tech Library Keeps Books at Faculty FingertipsWith Robot Help “Like other libraries, Chicago’s faced the problem of bulging stacks. But unlike others, it didn’t relieve that crunch by exiling collections to remote locations or disposing of little-used holdings. Its underground storage system can place a bound volume in faculty fingers …
Library Journal: “On July 22, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2551, the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2012 by a vote of 252 – 159. Unless the Senate acts, the bill would reduce GPO’s budget for FY12 by 20 percent to $108.1 million. Within the GPO budget is the appropriation for the Office of Superintendent …
News release: “A ground-breaking membership report from OCLC Research suggests that by transforming virtual reference (VR) service encounters into relationship-building opportunities, librarians can better leverage the positive feelings people have for libraries. This is critically important in a crowded online space where the biggest players often dont have the unique experience and specific strengths offered …
Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act Drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform Law – approved and recommended for enactment, July 18, 2011 “A new act approved [July 12, 2011] by a national law group establishes an outcomes-based, technology-neutral framework for providing online legal material with the same level of trustworthiness traditionally provided by …
Digitizing Hidden Collections in Public Libraries, by Gwen Glazer “Libraries no longer need to prove that they should be digitizing their materials; they just need to find ways to do it. This paper offers an overview of digitization challenges facing small and medium-sized libraries, presents options for large-scale digitization projects, and suggests ways to share …
News release: “Major project to digitise up to 40 million pages from 1700-1870, from the French Revolution to the end of slavery – The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the Librarys collections. Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in the world, …
Hunting For A Job? Try the Internet: Acknowledging the economy in the past several years has made the job search process even more challenging, Rhonda Keaton and Barbara Fullerton provide strategic suggestions and a guide to a wide range of sources to support and leverage a multi-pronged search effort in response to the competitive job …
